Eugen Kumičić
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11 January 1850 Brseč, Istria, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 13 May 1904 (aged 54) Zagreb, Austria-Hungary |
| Pen name | Jenio Sisolski |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright, politician |
| Ethnicity | Croat |
| Period | 1879–1902 |
| Literary movement | Realism, naturalism |
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Eugen Kumičić (11 January 1850 – 13 May 1904) was a prominent Croatian writer and politician.
Kumičić was born in Brseč, Mošćenička Draga (now in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County), a small town in Istria, then part of the Austrian Empire. After majoring philosophy at the University of Vienna, he returned to Croatia and worked as a teacher in high schools in Split, Zadar and Zagreb. From 1875 to 1878 he spent two years in Paris and six months in Venice, preparing for his French and Italian teaching examinations. While in France, he came into contact with naturalist writing, primarily through the works of Émile Zola.
Upon returning to Croatia, he spends the period from 1879 to 1883 teaching in a Zagreb high school. During that time, he becomes actively involved with the Croatian literary scene, as well as political activism. An ardent supporter of Ante Starčević's political program, he quits the civil service in 1883 in order to pursue a political and literary career. Along with Matko Laginja he launches the Primorac magazine in Kraljevica. He also works as editor of the Croatian Party of Rights' magazines Hrvatska vila (1882–1883) and Hrvatska (1887–1888), and publishes essays, opinion pieces and short stories in them. In 1884 he was elected to Croatian Parliament and he spent most of his political career opposing the Hungarian nationalists.
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